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You can’t end mass incarceration without addressing the plight of violent offenders.
“We have a huge population in our prisons for nonviolent, low-level offenses that are primarily due to marijuana,” said Hillary Clinton in the first Democratic debate, declining to embrace legalization but expressing sympathy for the plight of jammed-up users.
It is hard to think of a quote that better encapsulates the limits of the current mainstream conversation over criminal justice reform: there are, in fact, not so many people in prison simply for marijuana possession. Indeed, the number of people in state prisons for mere drug possession is just about 49,100, according to a march Marshall Project story.
That is still no doubt too many. And decriminalizing drug use would have an enormous impact on shifting the country’s response to drug addiction toward a public health approach. It’s just that it won’t do much to end mass incarceration. Releasing every nonviolent drug offender from state prison, dealers included, would only reduce a state prison population of roughly 1.35 million by about 210,200, as this handy Marshall Project calculator makes clear. Compare that to the roughly 707,500 in state prisons for violent crimes like murder (166,800), robbery (179,500) and rape (160,900).The United States’ big criminal justice problem is that it punishes people more severely for most crimes, minor and major, than most countries.
Our prison problem goes deep. Resolving it means changing the way we lock people away for longer than other nations
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